Neonatal Family Reunion Honors Intensive Care Nursery 'Graduates'

(October 13, 2009) -The Department of Neonatology at Memorial
University Medical Center (MUMC) will holds its 31st Neonatal
Family Reunion on Saturday, October 24, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in
the William and Iffath Hoskins Center for Biomedical Research on
the MUMC campus. The reunion will honor graduates of the MUMC
intensive care nurseries along with their families.

The Neonatal
Intensive Care Nursery (NICN) at MUMC opened in the summer of
1977 as the fifth regional neonatal tertiary care center in
Georgia. Today, it is one of only six Level 3 NICNs in the state of
Georgia, representing the highest level of care available for
premature or critically ill newborns. Approximately 700 newborns
are cared for in Memorial's NICN each year.

The annual reunion gives the NICN graduates and their families a
chance to reunite with caregivers, old friends, and other former
patients.